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same color is the swamp milkweed with its flat-topped cluster of 
wers. It is easily grown and is a lovely bit of color. 
butterfly-weed is also easily grown and is fine wherever its 
anu Crane does not clash with the milder things. 
the most valuable of our native plants 
for ata ene. Conitne as they do late in the season, in every 
de 
sha m the dark purple of the New England aster to pale 
lilacs and whites, nothing could be better than masses of t! 
wherever a space oun ey 
luxuriance in a good garden. I have seen them six feet tall and 
covered with blossoms. There are many varieties and all are 
beautiful. 
Fringed gentian, the latest of the wild flowers, is an an 
and can be raised from seed. The 
our w. st wil 
beautiful leaves and deliciously fragrant flowers. seen or 
o walk, its claw: zg sharp. The gro 
nut has chocolate colored blossoms with the fragrance of violets. 
Nightshade is a pretty slender vine with purple blossoms and 
red berries. 
A different and delightful way of using wild flowers is to keep 
and improve the wild gardens that nature has made, and here I 
them all weeds 
en I was a child our todas ‘were blue with fringed 
gentian. Now you may trav eople 
say “J left the roots!” But gentias are annuals and the roots 
are no more use than the roots of China asters after the flowers 
are gone. Even perennials like columbine need to be renewed 
